Freya Stark Quotes
The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him.Freya Stark
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
G. Willow Wilson -
I would like to direct.
Aaron Eckhart -
I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu -
The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr. -
If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
Fannie Lou Hamer -
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
Saina Nehwal -
Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.
Jack Keane -
I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
Laura Wasser -
Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
Rachel Johnson -
Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel -
Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
Zach Galifianakis
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
Walter Savage Landor -
I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
Walter Mosley -
It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
Octavio Paz -
I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
I don't eat any red meat.
Taylor Momsen -
Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
Edmund White
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Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.
Francis Bacon -
I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of 'The Brady Bunch.' Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying 'hi' to everyone, whether they knew me or not.
Marlee Matlin -
Self-respect knows no considerations.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.
Zoltan Kodaly -
The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him.
Freya Stark